A/N: I know I usually put this at the end; there will be a second one. I just want to say now I apologies for leaving this so long. Blame it on school and other annoying aspects of life. Thank you for my loyal readers for still reading and reviewing, I shall try not to do it again.

Mrs Yagami was preparing dinner when there was a knock at the door. She instantly knew who it was; her fourteen year son had come home earlier, asking if a friend could stay overnight. Even though he never said who exactly this person was, she knew her son well enough to tell. He had many friends, but one friend, he liked more than any of the others. His son's best friend was very smart; the two boys had a healthy competition with each over, Raito coming out on top most of the time. The two were very similar, they had the same interests and they studied together. One reason why they were so close was because they thought the same. They could get into the other ones head; they always knew what the other wanted, what was wrong and what made them so happy. It was almost like they could read minds. Everyone knew they were close.

"Good evening Kiyoshi." Mrs Yagami greeted, as the dark haired boy entered, both slightly bowing at the other one.
"Thank you for letting me stay, Mrs Yagami."
"It's no trouble at all." The elder woman smiled. She had always thought that Kiyoshi was such a polite, cheerful boy.
"Kiyoshi!" Raito called from up the stairs.
"Hi, Raito. I've thought up some new games" Kiyoshi replied, running up the stairs to greet his friend.
"He is such a creative boy, always making up new games." Mrs Yagami thought as she went back to cooking.

19th October 2004
The Puppet master chuckled. "So, you do remember me after all."
"What about me?" Darren questioned.
"Yes." Raito replied a thoughtful look on his face as he put his hand on his chin. "Harding. Kiyoshi and Darren Harding. You two are brothers. Darren was raised in England until he was five, when his family moved to Japan. Kiyoshi was raised in Japan his whole life, but has visited the UK on holiday, mainly to see family. I remember know."
The Puppet Masters smile dropped and his expression went deadly serious. "Do you remember everything?" He said in a dark tone. After a pause, The Puppet Master spoke again. "Do you remember everything?" He repeated "Even the insurance fraud murder case."
Raitos eyes widened slightly at the memory. "Is that what all this is about?"
"You speak of it like it was a little event. You must think of it as such, for if you didn't you wouldn't have forgotten it."
"It was ages ago..."
"That's no excuse for forgetting something like that." Darren spoke up, standing forward so he was next to The Puppet Master. "The day that you ruined our lives."
"I didn't. He did."
There was silence in the room, the atmosphere tense and heavy. No one dared to breath, let alone talk. Well, accept for L, that is.
"What was the insurance fraud murder case?" It was a few moments more until he got an answer.
"I used to help my father solve some cases, as you know." Raito finally spoke up. "I solved the insurance fraud murder case, with help from Kiyoshi. It turned out that..."
"The one behind it was my Father." There was another small, awkward silence, briefly broken by the sound of pattering footsteps as George fled the room.
"So, what happened" L started to sum up "was that You two were working on a case together, and it turned out, that your father was the one behind it. But, this was your fathers fault if he went to jail. Also all you had to suffer is no father for a while."
"It's not that simple." Darren explained. "When Kiyoshi was four and I was ten, our mother died. Our Father did a good job of raising us on his own, but we went into debt. No fault of ours, we were scammed. After that, our father moved to England for a while."
"That was when the insurance fraud murder case started." The Puppet Master continued. "I was friends with Raito at the time, so we both started to work on the case together. I was oblivious to the culprit when the case started, but then I found out. It had turned out that father had secretly moved back to Japan. I tried to stop Raito from finding out the truth, but failed. He solved the case in the end."
"Wait, you knew?" Raito questioned.
"It doesn't matter." The Puppet Master shot back "You still got my father arrested and left me and Darren without parents."
"And if that wasn't bad enough, he was murdered by Kira."
"I didn't do anything wrong!" Raito defended "I did the right thing and called the police, people were getting killed. Anyway, why didn't you go to one of your relatives?"
"We were young and we were scared. All our relatives were in completely different countries." Darren pointed out. "We weren't thinking straight, we can hardly be blamed."
"But, one day when we went to our old house to pick up some things." The Puppet Master explained "We found the stash of money father had left for us, just before he went to England. We used that to find this island and build this. It took us three and a half years to get to where we are now. I guess we should thank you." The dark haired man smirked evilly. "If you didn't ruin our lives, we would have never gotten to where we are now..." He put his hat back on and held the tip of it so it just about covered his left eye.
"Well, till next time. Yagami, Lawliet." The two men left, The Puppet Master smirking, Darren looking like the floor just insulted him. The door slammed shut and locked behind the two men, leaving L and Raito in silence.

The raven haired, red eyed man stared at the computer screen. He still hadn't told The Puppet Master that Raito was, in fact, Kira. The reason he knew about the Shinigami eyes showing you kira's identity was that when he hack Ls computer, the suspect's life span couldn't be seen. At first, he was confused, but when the suspect for the second kira was the same, he was smart enough to work out how it works. Beyond always wondered what The Puppet master would do if he found out that Raito killed his father. The young man closed the picture of Raito as he heard footsteps.
"How did it go, Puppet?"
"It went quite well. You should have seen the look on Raitos face when he found out it was me. L looked shocked as well, when I said his name."
"You have almost won, Kiyoshi." Darren spoke up "You have captured your enemy, you have the world's greatest detective as well and you almost have control over the world. All you need to do is kill kira, after stealing his power of course; then you can make yourself known and control the world. Also, you need to break Raito, as your revenge. Then you have won."
"Far from it, dear brother. These are the times people fail for they let their guard down. I have a feeling that something is going to happen, so we must be prepared. Anyway, you speak as if it were all me. I couldn't have done it without you. You too, Beyond."
"Thank you, Puppet~!"
Darren simply smiled. It was good to see his brother happy. After what happened four years ago, it was good that they both turned out successful. Little did he know what was soon to come.

Raito was in his room, contemplating the day's events. He remembered seeing Ryuzaki today, the obvious burn mark on his face; Raito also noticed that the older man saw the marks the brunette obtained yesterday, although, there were worse things to worry about than yesterdays 'punishment'.

Kiyoshi. Kiyoshi Harding. Also know as: Puppet. His old best friend was The Puppet Master. Raito remembered everything so clearly now, when he lost his best friend at the age of fourteen. He had constantly been either angry at himself or grieving over the loss of their friendship. People tried to make him forget, but, he just couldn't let go. It wasn't until one day he realised how much it was affecting him and the people around him, so he just forgot. It wasn't until now that he remembered what happened. He felt guilty for being the cause of all this distress; if it wasn't for Raito, The Puppet Master wouldn't exist. There would just be Kiyoshi. Raito sometimes contradicted himself as to whether he really did do the right thing all those years ago. Maybe, letting one murder roam free would have stopped all this madness. Kiyoshis father could have always been found out by someone else; Raito would be the good friend that would comfort Kiyoshi and they would be closer friends than before. How much better that would have been. It was too late now, though. Too late to think about what Raito could have done. Too late to worry about long term effects. Too late to prevent The Puppet Master from taking over the world. Raito stopped thinking for a second, before realizing something. Even though it was too late to prevent The Puppet Masters existence, it wasn't too late to stop him; there was still hope. Raito and L could still take action against him, whether it was by escaping and getting him arrested that way or defeating him face-to-face. The only problem was, when the time comes, can Raito bring himself to hurt his old friend for the second time?

A/N: When I look back, the previous chapters, including this one, was setting up for the rest of the story. A lot of secrets have been revealed and it basically starts here.

To Mary-Lou: thanks for reviewing. Raito knows Darren through Kiyoshi/Puppet. I shall try my hardest to get an image soon, but there is a slight problem. Also, I am glad you think he is sexy ;-)

One last note to everyone: I know I promised a picture of Kiyoshi, but there seems to be a problem transferring Puppet from my line onto paper. I have known for a while what he looks like but whenever I try to draw him it goes wrong. I shall keep trying.

-LFTD